Hands On or Hands Off? Disgust Sensitivity and Preference for Environmental Education Activities.

Bixler, Robert D.; Floyd, Myron F.

Journal of Environmental Education, v30 n3 p4-11 Spr 1999

Discusses barriers to environmental education. Middle school students completed a science-activity-preference scale and a disgust-sensitivity scale. Respondents who expressed the lowest interest in activities that required manipulation of organic substances also had the highest disgust-sensitivity scores. (Author/CCM)